My 2009.

bicycles 1

picture of bicycles

Thursday 2

picture of Geoff Rickly

boston 3

picture of boston

craft beer 4

picture of beer

disaster 5

picture of an ICU monitor

bahn mi 6

picture of bahn mi

buses 7

picture of a bus

(loud) music 8

picture of headphones

(searching for) companionship 9

picture of something related to companionship

warm bed 10

picture of a bed

brooklyn 11

brooklyn

vegetables 12

vegetables

postcards 13

postcards

darkness 14

darkness


  1. [IRO Bike 012 copy][1] by Ninj0x, licensed under Creative Commons [1]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninj0x/3749898579/ ↩︎

  2. [thursday_01][2] by charlie_cravero, licensed under Creative Commons [2]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlie_cravero/3556470077/in/photostream ↩︎

  3. [Downtown Boston][3] by castevens12, licensed under Creative Commons [3]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/beantown/3439594937 ↩︎

  4. [On Tap][4] by forklift, licensed under Creative Commons [4]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/forklift/3267289921/ ↩︎

  5. [The Phillips ICU monitor][5] by Alin_S, licensed under Creative Commons [5]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alinssite/4175517381/ ↩︎

  6. [bahn mi][6] by u_m_a_m_i, licensed under Creative Commons [6]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/umami88/33620171/ ↩︎

  7. [December 22 2007][7] by seaworthy, licensed under Creative Commons [7]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcr/2149129662/ ↩︎

  8. [At last, my meditation room awaits][8] by A-Wix, licensed under Creative Commons [8]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wicks/2192531042/ ↩︎

  9. [Love is companionship][9] by isolano, licensed under Creative Commons [9]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/isolano/438509016/ ↩︎

  10. [On My Bed][10] by windy_sydney, licensed under Creative Commons [10]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/windysydney/2313779184/ ↩︎

  11. [Riding Over the Williamsburg Bridge in the AM][11] by Seth W., licensed under Creative Commons [11]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sethw/278250870/ ↩︎

  12. [Morocco, vegetable-market][12] by docman, licensed under Creative Commons [12]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/docman/5053155/ ↩︎

  13. [Postcard Board][13] by ocherdraco, licensed under Creative Commons [13]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocherdraco/3296009/ ↩︎

  14. [Into the darkness…][14] by cosmic_spanner, licensed under Creative Commons [14]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cosmic_spanner/3743184586/ ↩︎

Excerpt from "Understanding Linux Network Internals"

I’m currently reading Christian Benvenuti’s excellently written Understanding Linux Network Internals from O’Reilly which is helping to shore up my knowledge about how the networking stack is implemented in Linux. It’s a fantastic read so far, on course to match Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love, one of my all-time favorite books.

The following paragraph from Benvenuti’s book really made me step back and take a look at the bigger picture:

That passage is just brilliant. Count the occurrences of jargon there!

I guess i should read more arXiv papers to better understand how much larger the world actually is.